Animal Collective's Fall Plans
Depending on your indie-oriented-site-that-ranks-bands-on-ten-point-scales of choice, it seems Animal Collective are second only to Radiohead as the aughts' most relevant band. And with the bevy of activity the Collective has lined up, they seem to be angling to extend that well into next year.
There's something old: a reissue of the out-of-print 2003 album Campfire Songs, originally distributed by Catsup Plate, now being re-released under the auspices of their own label, Paw Tracks on 1/26/10. There's something current, in the just announced "Brothersport" 10" b/w a live "Bleeding." But now it seems Avey, Geologist, Panda Bear (and possibly Deakin) are offering something new: Today all eyes are on this Amazon page which has an $11.38 pre-order price for something called Fall Be Kind, due on Domino 12/8 (via P4K). We've already had a Crack Box, so just maybe this is the new Animal Collective record you guys have been waiting so patiently these nine months for.
UPDATE: Fall Be Kind is an EP:
01 "Graze"
02 "What Would I Want Sky"
03 "Bleed"
04 "On A Highway"
05 "I Think I Can"
That's still not all, though. Remember that experimental film the band's been working on? It's just about ready. The photo above comes from a lakeside chat we had with the band at this year's ATP NY, where they discussed their plans for the movie, including possible hybrid performance/screenings ... and the Sundance Film Festival:
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AVEY: We were in the studio finishing mixing this past week this kind of movie thing that we're doing. We were trying to get it finished because Danny, who we're working with, the director, really wanted to submit it to the Sundance Festival, and the deadline is in a month or so, or two months. We were trying to make sure it got done for that.
GEOLOGIST: I think it's in a week.
AVEY: Oh really? (Laughs) We've been working on it for almost three years or something like that. And we talk every year, it's been like, "Oh yeah, we gotta get it done for the festival deadlines." And we just haven't been ready until this year. ... We wanna kind of screen it around in theaters.
GEOLOGIST: We actually thought about not playing live tonight if we had gotten it closer to being done this week. We thought maybe we could just show up and play it on a movie screen here and that would be our performance.
STEREOGUM: Will you do any combined performances, of the DVD and you guys playing live over it?
PANDA: We talked about it.
AVEY: It would take a lot of practice. Just 'cause we've basically assembled all the music and sounds, kind of a little bit piece by piece, you know, and not really in a live sort of setting. Yeah, it would take a little bit of work. we could do it ... for a good occasion. It would take a lot of planning for sure.
GEOLOGIST: There would be a lot of instruments onstage.
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If you're looking for the answer to "how could Animal Collective's critical acclaim possibly get any bigger," winning a Sundance film festival award would be it.
Posted at 5:56 PM by amrit
Tags: Animal Collective | Sundance
Regarding the other relevant band.. Atease.com just reported Radiohead's winter plans: recording of their next album. That's right.
Happy birthday Thom!
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To all the Haters:
Have you heard FEELS?!? This band IS only 2nd to Radiohead. Dare I say this generation's Beatles? perhaps too grandiose, but still, no one else comes even close (besides radiohead). eat snacky smores.
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"Dare I say this generation's Beatles?" Is that a joke? Everyone knew The Beatles back in the day right up until today. People that are not even into music can recognise most of their songs. There has never been a band or artist nearly as popular except for Michael Jackson in the mid/late 80's. Nothing against AC but most people have never even heard of them or would want to listen to AC except people that follow indie/Pitchfork. They are an aquired taste at best. I could name tons of better, more fun and interesting bands. I saw them once recently in DC and was totally bored. Pitchfork are clueless.
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@the truth hurts. comparing animal collective to the beatles is tantamount to comparing post-war counter cultural-formulating america to the set up we have going on here today, which is misleading, and makes no sense at all, given even a cursory glance of our current situation. suggesting that animal collective is some subversive force, which has nothing to do with the music they create, would suggest that there's some overarching mainstream culture to subvert, and sadly there is not. there is no subculture, nothing is dangerous, or even remotely subversive, and every band stands an equal shot at being part of the popular consciousness, including Anco, who played the entire late night circuit, and managed to put out a decent record along the way.
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Dear Sir or Madam,
You appear to have plagiarized that excerpt from an essay, entitled "Historiographical Shifts in 21st Century American Politics: Toward a Post-modern Political Scatology," that I wrote for my freshman political science seminar. You have merely substituted the terms "Beatles" and "Animal Collective" for "Richard Nixon" and "George W. Bush", respectively.
In the future, please cite my work as appropriate.
Warmest regards
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so by that definition richard nixon is comparable to the beatles, while animal collective becomes the personification of george w. bush? sounds like you didn't do too well in that class.
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good show. A-
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OK, i can't believe i'm defending my statement but here it goes:
jjazznola: you're retarded. I didn't say animal collective is as POPULAR as the beatles were, no shit they aren't, the closest right now to that would be britney spears or the jonas brothers or something, so thanks for missing the point.
arnie grape: you're not smart. sorry to bum you out. while john lennon may have lead some "counter-culture" pursuits during his own time, the beatles as a band were not involved in this at all. so your arguements makes no sense, therefore, you're fucking retarded.
WHAT I MEANT by comparing animal collective to the beatles was their ability to continually progress music and reinvent themselves with every album. see: revolver, sgt peppers, abbey road. see: sung tongs, feels, merriweather post pavillion. each album is completely different yet equally amazing. the ONLY other modern band to do that, and to that extent of greatness is radiohead. hence, pitchfork being on top of their game to recoginze this and have them overall in the #1 and #2 spots on their list for best of 00s. this is also why people actually listen to P4K and NOT to the arnie grapes of the world.
TASTE MOTHERFCKERS, TASTE.
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I got ya dude. You're totally correct.
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I remember something about an album of "summertime clothes" remixes, could that be it? Seems like the name would make sense. I doubt it would be a full album already.
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ha, forgot that came out a while ago. *embarrassed*
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hey could it have something to do with that grateful dead sample that they just got the rights too?
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For real.
Very few bands have done what they have done. Compare the sounds of their past 5 records and they vary so much, yet all sound so beautiful.
It's kind of like taking an early Beatles album and comparing it to Revolver, MMT or Sgt. Peppers...completely different sounds in less than a couple of years.
Love them or hate them, you've got to respect them.
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Well, they do generally have an offcuts EP between albums, ie. Water Curses and People. Though I believe they said there wasn't enough material for a MPP offcut EP.
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Sundance award? I think the 2011 Oscar for Best Picture is in the bag. Sorry, Iron Man 2.
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Yes, Animal Collective is a really great band, one of my favorites, as for ranking them, i do not have a rank. hah Campfire Songs is a really good album, and it's good that they are reissuing it, and I definately can't wait for the movie, sucks it's being rushed, even though they've been making it since the who can win a rabbit video, but it sould be trippy as shit, i will definately be under the influence. haha but yea... and as for the "this generation's Beatles" i would like to say that would go to Dr. Dog, but they aren't very popular on these blog websites. I would compare them to The Dead, since they both intake LSD and they both like the jam live, which is awesome! All are really great bands. (sorry so long, this is my first 'post'). No Reply
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So it wasn't enough for them to have the album of the year? They feel the need to deprive other bands the #2 slot?
Real cool, AC. Real cool.
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the cynic in me is screaming that this is wall of ice part 2
but if this is actually a new album, or even an ep... fuck!
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Good, hopefully they release a new album in December that way in 2010 we don't have to hear ALL YEAR LONG about how it's the best album of the year. Animal Collective put a big buzzkill on 2009 when they released that insanely overrated album in January.
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This is the best news I've heard in a while, although I'm pretty sure it will be an EP not a record. Oh well, I'm still psyched for the visual album. Happy Holidays indeed.
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bands at their peak can do this...
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I'm a bit confused..."the aughts' most relevant band" link goes to the Pitchfork top 20 albums of '00s article but Arcade Fire is #2 to Radiohead there, not AC...am I missing something?
I'm trapped in a glass cage of emotion...
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I think they're referring to the fact that both bands had 3 albums in the Top 55. No one else came close to doing that.
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Yeah, I also think it's an EP. The amazon site says it's a vinyl and it's $11. The MPP vinyl cost me $28 (Canadian, I don't know how that translated in the States). Also I think I read they were working on B-Sides/EP material somewhere, but I am really unsure that I actually read that. Either way, I think it's an EP.
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On the Joe Lambert Mastering website, they have a news blurb:
"Dave of Animal Collective was in last week to attend the mastering of there new EP titled "Fall Be Kind". All you AC fans will love it."
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Here's the URL:
http://www.joelambertmastering.com/news.html
Hopefully it doesn't get nuked after I submit.
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Thanks for the link. Though i hope this is more campfire songs and less danse manatee. As thanks you get five points and a cookie.
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jojo, you have to look at the entire list.
Animal Collective have 3 albums on the list:
#14 - Merriweather Post Pavilion
#27 - Sung Tongs
#55 - Feels
It's actually 4 if you include Panda Bear's solo effort Person Pitch (#9)
Radiohead have 3 albums on the list as well:
#1 - Kid A
#21 - In Rainbows
#34 - Amnesiac
While they are giving Arcade Fire's Funeral the #2 slot, Neon Bible isn't even on the list at all (which I personally consider to be an omission). Fellow Top 10 residents Modest Mouse, Wilco, Daft Punk, and The Strokes also only contribute a single album to the list.
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No love for Strawberry Jam, P4K? That album has some of AnCo's best 'jams' on it: "Fireworks" and "Peacebone" are amazing.
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ahh, i get it now. thanks, drain.
personally (and I'd bet others [and by "others", I mean adiitional people who are also really really effin cool] share this thought), i think Daft's Homework was braver, had more character and was overall slightly better than Discovery...and Wilco's A Ghost is Born should be up on the list as well.
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That may be...but Homework was released in, what, 1997? Not any time recently enough that would have rendered it eligible for that list.
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people who like animal collective don't like music.
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after some extensive research and intense calculations, result indicate that it's quite obvious you're a fekin moron.
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Oooo. Good one isbyn. A real zinger.
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Oooo. Good one lemons. A real lemon zinger.
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Oooo. Grapes.
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"...this generation's Beatles?"
Give me a break. Overrated garbage.
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FUCK THE BEATLES. They were good and whatever. I fucking love George Harrison, but can everyone get off of this shit already. Most of the people comparing Animal Collective to the Beatles on here weren't alive when the Beatles ruled. I realized that the beatles were not gonna have an affect on my generation at a young age, and that made me see that I liked other Musicians from that time that I feel were better. All of you should realize this, yea the beatles were good and so is their music, but at their time they were popular because of little girls. Bands that are popular like that now are bands like Fall Out Boy, so those bands are more comparable to the beatles.
All I'm saying is stop acting like you know so much about the beatles because you've heard they were big. Stop comparing any bands to older bands, just live and like the music that is now, our Generations music.
Also, fuck comparing someone that is good to the beatles because they are supposed to be the best musicians. MICHAEL JACKSON WAS WAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYY BETTER!
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you are fucking retarded. you shouldn't be allowed to listen to music.
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I agree with Bootyfish. That dumbshit Unicorn Porn compared the Beatles to Fall Out Boy. He should be castrated.
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I just think what Kubrick would be hip enough to do with this bands music..Just the trailer alone would do it...
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What a strange argument: We cannot compare the music of this decade to music of previous decades. Why? Because we didn't live through the historical or cultural moment? There's no way we can study the music and the context in which it was made? You obviously believe so because you don't know much about the Beatles in their historical context. Yes, they were a boy band up until the mid sixties. Then, as both they and their audience matured, their compositions became more complex, their sound more expansive, and their subject matter more expansive.
I know this is the Internet and you are likely a troll, but may I suggest you go study their music first? Some have very good reasons for believing the Beatles to be the best or most important rock group in history. And if you give them a close listen, give their history a close read, you may find good reasons to argue otherwise. But until then, stop throwing out piss-poor, unfounded declarations like "just live and like the music that is now."
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Can AnCo be this generations Dylan then?
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